Word: tente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...green and white Volkswagen van and trailer, carrying props and a gaudily striped circus tent, drives along the highways ahead of the 4-m.p.h. raft. The idea is to pique the curiosity of the local townfolk with the circus tent and catch their interest with oldtime medicine-show acts in the first half of the program-a jerky juggling act, for example, or the wonders of "Miraculo" the Magician, an exotic gentleman "just returned from the remote and distant shores of Long Island...
...still hard work. When you pack your sleeping bag, foam mattress, tent, change of clothes, food and utensils, you end up carrying 40 lbs. or more. Lugging that load 15 miles a day in rough country is a guaranteed antidote to the dangers of the soft city life...
...Well-marked hiking routes have been hacked out all over the country. Many are like the Long Trail, which runs 262 miles through Vermont from Canada to Massachusetts, where you can even find primitive shelters every six miles or so-just in case you forget how to raise your tent properly. An investment of $150 or so will buy all the gear you need. Clearly it is the last great vacation bargain...
...huge yellow-and-orange tent was set up on the White House lawn to accommodate more than 1,280 guests at 128 tables. White House aides found two aluminum canoes and filled them with crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne. Chef Henry Haller borrowed a huge blender from the Pentagon to purée 90 quarts of strawberries for the dessert. Two hundred extra butlers were recruited to help serve a feast that began with suprême of seafood Neptune (crabmeat, tiny shrimps and scallops in sauce) served with hearts of palm and proceeded, with...
Some of the guests wept when a P.O.W. chorus sang a hymn composed by one of the prisoners: "We pledge unswerving faith and loyalty/ To our cause-America and thee." All were moved when a tiny flag was carried into the tent and placed in a position of honor on the stage. Laboriously made from threads plucked from prisoners' uniforms, the flag had been flown at night by men confined in the prison called the Hanoi Hilton...